Failover Name Servers for Reliability and Uptime

Name Servers are a forgotten piece of the internet puzzle.  Having failover name servers for reliability and uptime is a consideration often overlooked from the client, to the web services provider, and all the way up to the webhost.  While name servers are (theoretically) geographically separated and located on separate networks, they are not impregnable …

Install and use the latest Libav (instead of FFMPEG) and x264 on Ubuntu

It appears that libav, a fork of ffmpeg (see discussion here), is a more actively developed multimedia SDK and encoder. In order to install libav, instead of ffmpeg, on Ubuntu, I follow the wonderfulHOWTO on installing and using the latest FFMPEG and x264, with the following changes:

CSF/LFD firewall installation guide for Plesk

Config Server Firewall (csf) and Login Failure Daemon (lfd) is a robust firewall solution having Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers. Although it is more compatible with CPanel we have been able to use the same for the Plesk hosting control panel also and it is running fine. Please …